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Великолепное интервью, Микки говорит о некоторых своих фильмах www.avclub.com/michael-biehn-on-the-victim-william-friedkin-and. Не могу удержаться, чтобы не кинуть сюда выдержки о самом для меня интересном и не прокомментировать.
Logan’s Run (1977)—“Sandman”Logan’s Run (1977)—“Sandman”
MB: First time in front of a camera. Got my Screen Actors Guild card. I was scared. I only had two lines, and they were the same line: “Runner headed toward Quadrant Four!” I haven’t seen it in 35 years, but I remember doing it, sitting there and going over it and over it until they said, “Action!” And when they did, I said it the first time, and then my mind went blank. I was like, “Oh, my God, what’s my other line?” And then I went, “Oh, right: ‘Runner headed toward Quadrant Four!’” [Laughs.] So, yeah, I managed to get through those two lines, and that was my first time on film.
Ах ты ж лапочка, но невольно возникает вопрос (который и так перманентно тлеет на задворках сознания): а за какие свои заслуги ты, "модель" из провинции, получил эту первую роль?
Navy SEALs (1990)—“Lieutenant James Curran”Navy SEALs (1990)—“Lieutenant James Curran”
MB: That is a movie which… [Long pause.] I was really disappointed with that movie, because we had the Navy behind us, we had a really, really good producer, Bernie Williams, we had a great crew and a great cast. We had Charlie [Sheen] and [Bill] Paxton and me and Joanne Whalley, Dennis Haysbert… just a great cast. We had a sсript that could’ve been worked on, could’ve been made a lot better, but they wanted to make this kind of silly movie about Charlie Sheen running and jumping on the back of a car, putting it in reverse, and driving it off a ramp. The director wanted to make… I don’t know what he wanted to make. A comedy or something. I guess he considered it like an Arnold Schwarzenegger movie. I wanted to do Top Gun, and Paxton wanted to do Top Gun. We wanted to make a really good movie, and it really turned out to be kind of a mish-mash and not a very good movie at all. So it’s really kind of… yeah, it’s probably the worst experience of my life, working on that movie.
AVC: Wow, really? Bill Paxton didn’t exactly love it, but he at least enjoyed the golfing scenes.
MB: Well, yeah, I can see that. Paxton basically… what they basically had us doing in the original sсript was playing volleyball, okay? And it was like, “Dude, come on, man, they did that in Top Gun. Do we really have to do the exact same thing?” So we came up with the golfing stuff, and I remember that Bill came up with—he’s kind of a director himself now, but at the time, he came up with a list of different shots and different things he thought would be really cool. And Lewis Teague [the director], who somehow failed upwards in his career at that point—I think Navy SEALs was his final failing—wouldn’t shoot the stuff.
Still, I’m surprised that Bill has any fond memories of that movie at all, because Bill was, I think, kind of frustrated, too. I just thought there was a possibility to do Top Gun, you know? I thought there was a possibility to show Navy SEALs in a real light, not some sort of crazy jumping out of cars, jumping into rivers kind of shenanigans. I think you’ll probably see the first real great portrayal of Navy SEALs when Kathryn Bigelow’s [Zero Dark Thirty] comes out. I think she’s working on that. So you’ll see it in that. But the thing about the movie Navy SEALs is that it was just such a waste. The sсript could’ve been shaped to be much better, and you just hate to see all that talent and passion go to waste.
Как бы я ни любила этот фильм и как бы Бин не был на него обижен, но Микки, между прочим, прав. Роль Шина не лезет ни в какие ворота и противоречит всем принципам и порядкам Navy SEALs (и я об этом постоянно говорю). То, что в фильме превозносится как изюминка героя, на самом деле должно было привести его к трибуналу с самыми тягчайшими последствиями и вполне заслуженно. А эти сцены с машиной-выкидонами я всегда перекручиваю, когда смотрю фильм. И если бы фильм сняли так, как хотел Бин (а сценарий и так три раза переписывали по его милости), то это был бы серьезный жесткий реалистический боевик. Ну и то верно, кому еще понять "морских котиков", как не Микки Бину. Жаль, что вышло не по его, но бочку на кино он зря катит. Это супер фильм, а Шина можно и перемотать. Зато Микки стоит вспомнить, как он сыграл на сцене похорон, вся дурь тут же забывается.
Tombstone (1993)—“Johnny Ringo”Tombstone (1993)—“Johnny Ringo”
MB: Johnny Ringo is my favorite antagonist. Johnny Ringo is a character that I always played as somebody who kind of had a death wish. He was tired of boozing it up, tired of women… He was bored with life and wanted some excitement, and his way of getting that excitement was having a shootout with Doc Holliday and/or Wyatt Earp. Wyatt Earp was who he was looking at, really. The thing about Johnny Ringo that’s kind of sad, actually, is that they changed his story. Johnny Ringo never shot a priest. Johnny Ringo never shot anybody. That was all done for the movie. Johnny Ringo was known for calling Wyatt Earp out for a gunfight, and Wyatt Earp declined. [Ringo] was one of the cowboys, but that’s really where he got his reputation: calling out Wyatt Earp, and Wyatt Earp saying, “I don’t want to fight you.” He never killed anybody; that was all made up. But that’s my favorite antagonist that I’ve ever played, and there’s a moment in that movie where I say to Doc Holliday, “My fight’s not with you,” and he says, “I beg to differ.” And there appears to be kind of a twinkle in Johnny’s eye, and that’s where I’m basically saying, “Let’s do it.” I think that’s one of my favorite moments in my film career. There was an excitement about it. It’s like guys who go bungee jumping. How close can they get to death without dying? That’s the exciting part of life, and that’s what Johnny Ringo was to me. The rest of it was just a big bore. [Laughs.]
Микки пугает. Этим exciting part of life. Кого это напоминает?
The Abyss (1989)—“Lieutenant Hiram Coffey”The Abyss (1989)—“Lieutenant Hiram Coffey”
MB: Misunderstood. [Laughs.] People always say, “Oh, he’s such a good bad guy,” but… Okay, here I am, I’m just this lieutenant, a guy who’s used to taking orders, cut off from my chain of command. Then I get the underwater sickness, so I’m not quite right, anyway. And then I have these people running up to me, yelling at me that there’s aliens in the water and they’re friendly. I mean, what would you do? [Laughs.] Would you really believe that there were aliens in the water, or would you believe that it was some Russian deal? So I had a lot of sympathy for him, and I had a lot of sympathy for the fact that he was used to, “Come on, give me an order. I’ll march up the hill or whatever you ask me to do.” But when he had to make the decisions, and his mind wasn’t working the way it should be because of his sickness and people were telling him that aliens were running all over the place, it just kind of sent him over the deep end. I’ve always felt a little bit sorry for Coffey, and I’ve never even really thought of him as an antagonist. I just think of him as somebody who was in the wrong place at the wrong time.
И здесь он абсолютно прав. Повторю сказанное выше, но Бин каким-то образом точно понял суть "морских котиков", и строго говоря Лт. Коффи – единственный, кто действовал как положено во всем этом бардаке.
Criminal Minds (2009)—“Detective Ron Fullwood”Criminal Minds (2009)—“Detective Ron Fullwood”
MB: That happened… I took that job the day after my father died, just to keep my mind off of what was going on. I don’t really remember very much about that shoot.
О. Царство Небесное.
Hill Street Blues (1984)—“Officer Randall Buttman”Hill Street Blues (1984)—“Officer Randall Buttman”
MB: Well, that was a great character for me. I loved that character because he was just such a total asshole. He was a racist, he was a misogynist, he didn’t like women, he didn’t like anybody, he was a loudmouth, he was crude… What was cool about him was that I got to work with Betty Thomas and Ed Marinaro, and when I was standing between the two of them, I looked like a shrimp. I mean, I’m 6 feet tall, but Ed’s gotta be 6-foot-2 or 6-foot-3, and Betty’s gotta be 6-foot-1 or 6-foot-2, so I looked like Robert Conrad, like any minute I was gonna say, “Knock this battery off my shoulder!” [Laughs.] I looked like the little guy, who was always feisty and yelling and stuff, and I had a great time doing that character. It’s one of my favorite characters, in fact. I loved him.
Надо таки посмотреть этот сериал, тем более, что он у меня есть.
The Runaways (1978)—“Mark Johnson”The Runaways (1978)—“Mark Johnson”
MB: Ah, I was so young then, I didn’t really know what I was doing. I have very fleeting memories of being excited that I was in a television series. I remember fighting with [producer] Quinn Martin over the fact that I wanted to wear overalls, and he wouldn’t let me wear overalls on the show at certain times. I thought they were cool back then! [Laughs.] That was a very, very long time ago. It’s kind of hard to remember. I remember they replaced the lead actor with the guy from The Brady Bunch [Robert Reed]. He was very nice. Every television series I do seems to do 22 episodes and then go away. Same with The Magnificent Seven. I think we may have done less of Hawaii. I never could get a television series over the top.
Ну и какого ты, ясен свет, помянул совсем не к месту М7?!
The Magnificent Seven (1998-2000)—“Chris Larabee”The Magnificent Seven (1998-2000)—“Chris Larabee”
MB: That was a lot of fun. I enjoyed that. I had a line producer on that television series, John Watson, who used to listen to me. [Laughs.] The scripts would come out, I’d look at them, and I’d say, “Well, this doesn’t make sense and that doesn’t make sense,” and he would actually get the writers to change things. John was kind of like a father figure to me on that show, because it’s hard when writers write stuff that doesn’t make sense, or things are being shot that don’t make sense. And I could always run to John, and he would back me up, which was great. I owe John Watson a lot. I love him. And [executive producer/writer] Pen Densham. But especially John. John used to always joke about the fact that, like, he’d be in his office and he always knew when I was coming, because he could hear these spurs coming down his hallway. [Laughs.] Because I’d be coming in for changes to the scene that day or the sсript the following week, whatever. But he’d hear the spurs and he’d go, “Fuck, here comes Michael Biehn again…”
AVC: The Magnificent Seven was also one of the first series—possibly the very first—to earn a reprieve from cancellation as a result of an Internet campaign from fans.
MB: Well, that’s what they say. They say that a lot of people wrote in, and we did get a few extra episodes out of it. But we just couldn’t push it over the top. If you look at the history of westerns… Tombstone cost $65 million, it made $65 million at the box office, so it’s obviously into profit at this point, but it was not a hugely successful movie when you think about how much people like the movie now and how people talk about it now. Unforgiven, if I’m not mistaken, won Clint Eastwood an Oscar for directing, it won Best Picture, and something like six or seven more nominations beyond that. But I think that movie still only did about $90 million. So I think the western is a genre that… well, I know Quentin [Tarantino] is doing one, and I hear Robert [Rodriguez] is doing one now, too, but it’s been a genre that I know has been tough to sell overseas, and of course they’re expensive to make because of all the period stuff. And from what I understand, teenagers and [people] into their early 20s aren’t really interested in them. So they’re hard sells. They did the combination Cowboys And Aliens, which was… [Long pause.] An interesting movie, I’ll call it. That was, I thought, an interesting idea from the beginning, but… If Quentin can turn his movie, Django Unchained, into a hit, or if Robert can make a hit western, then maybe they’ll come back. But even when we were doing The Magnificent Seven, it was a genre that was kind of losing steam in a hurry.
Бляяяяяяяя... Весело им было. А то, оно и заметно. Без подколов, реально заметно, что ребята делали с удовольствием. Но картина “Fuck, here comes Michael Biehn again…”, идет, тяжело ступая и звеня своими шпорами – это все, капут, я не могу читать и печатать дальше! Вот, дорогие мои, и открыт секрет, почему Крис Лараби такой живой образ – настолько живой, что через 15 лет после премьеры сериала он продолжает жить, будоражить умы и сердца людей и равнозначно существует не только в мире Дикого Запада, а и в современном мире. Все это потому, что он и есть живой, Микки творил его с себя самого. И вот к чему я написала, комментируя Джонни Ринго, что он пугает своими словами – да потому что то, что описал Микки, в точности лепится к Крису Лараби. И над режиссером Микки издевался так, как Крис издевался над всем миром.
А что касается того, что вестерны не продаются – все это верно, но вопрос лично к Микки, почему он регулярно продолжает сниматься в них? Лично мне ясно: не в деньгах счастье. И да, вестерны не смотрят тинейджэры - их смотрят домохозяйки бальзаковского возраста.
Aliens (1986)—“Corporal Dwayne Hicks”Aliens (1986)—“Corporal Dwayne Hicks”
MB: Well, that was an interesting project because I came in late on it. I think what made Hicks such an interesting character was that he was a reluctant hero. There’s a scene in the movie that I think defines Hicks, and that’s where Sigourney Weaver says to Paul Reiser, “I think Hicks is in control here. He’s the one that has to make this decision.” And she looks at him and says, “Am I right?” And I look up at her, and I say [Sheepishly.] “Yeah. Yeah, you’re right.” I don’t want the responsibility. I’m just a grunt, and I do not want the responsibility. And I think that’s what makes him kind of endearing. He’s not a “let’s go out and kick some ass” kind of guy. He’s more, “Well, I guess I have to do this.” That moment, I think, defines Hicks. And the movie itself is just… it’s Jim Cameron at his absolute finest. In fact, I think… Well, I’m a little partial to The Terminator. [Laughs.] But I think those two films are his best.
Истину глаголишь!
Terminator 2AVC: You filmed a reprisal of your role for Terminator 2, but your scenes ended up being cut from the theatrical release. How bummed were you?
MB: A little bit, but not a lot. Because, first of all, it was a long movie. Jim called me, and he explained it to me: It was too long, he had to cut a couple things out, mine was one of the last things to go. But he had two other flashbacks in the movie, and basically what I did in the movie was the same thing I did in the first movie, so it was not like not getting Alien 3. [Laughs.] I got paid a very handsome price for that one day of work. And I’d do anything for Jim. If he asked me to come over and wash his car today, I’d do it. And it’s raining, too! But I’d do anything for Jim.
Приколист хренов, он еще смеется над "Чужим-3"! А сколько он нервов вымотал тамошним режиссерам, им до сих пор не до смеха!
The Rock (1996)—“Commander Charles Anderson”The Rock (1996)—“Commander Charles Anderson”
MB: Well, I have a horror story that goes along with that movie, and then I’ve got a really good story that goes along with it. The horror story is that we had this really big production shot that was set up where one of these trucks pulls up, and there’s 12 of us that come piling out of this humvee, and helicopters are flying by in the background, and other troops are marching, jeeps are driving by. It’s this huge production shot that takes about an hour to set up every time. I came out, and I had this big speech to give that I’d been working on in my head for, like, the last two weeks. So Sean Connery’s standing there, there’s Nic Cage, who’s just been nominated for an Academy Award for Drunk In Las Vegas or whatever it was. [Laughs.] And I come up to give this big speech, and… I just went blank. I’m standing there and I’m not saying anything, and suddenly Michael Bay starts screaming the dialogue to me from off-camera. So he screamed it to me, I’d say it, he’d scream more, I’d say it, he’d scream more… We finally finished it, and we only did one take, because it would’ve taken too long to set up again, but I just felt like a complete idiot. I mean, I froze, and I did it in front of everybody. But Michael kind of poured hot water on the situation, thankfully. Then when we were doing the shower sequence, that turned out to be a scene where… y’know, when I was making it, I didn’t really think it was that big of a deal. But it was the second time I went up against Ed Harris, who’s always been a good, tough guy to go up against, and people always respond to that scene. In fact, a lot of people tell me that it’s the best scene in the movie. So, yeah, I had my highs and lows in The Rock. [Laughs.]
"I didn’t really think it was that big of a deal" – и это об р е а л ь н о лучшей сцене не то что в фильме – многие люди считают, что в кинематографе! И, Микки-Микки, так вот откуда берется твоя жесткая лаконичность!
Logan’s Run (1977)—“Sandman”Logan’s Run (1977)—“Sandman”
MB: First time in front of a camera. Got my Screen Actors Guild card. I was scared. I only had two lines, and they were the same line: “Runner headed toward Quadrant Four!” I haven’t seen it in 35 years, but I remember doing it, sitting there and going over it and over it until they said, “Action!” And when they did, I said it the first time, and then my mind went blank. I was like, “Oh, my God, what’s my other line?” And then I went, “Oh, right: ‘Runner headed toward Quadrant Four!’” [Laughs.] So, yeah, I managed to get through those two lines, and that was my first time on film.
Ах ты ж лапочка, но невольно возникает вопрос (который и так перманентно тлеет на задворках сознания): а за какие свои заслуги ты, "модель" из провинции, получил эту первую роль?
Navy SEALs (1990)—“Lieutenant James Curran”Navy SEALs (1990)—“Lieutenant James Curran”
MB: That is a movie which… [Long pause.] I was really disappointed with that movie, because we had the Navy behind us, we had a really, really good producer, Bernie Williams, we had a great crew and a great cast. We had Charlie [Sheen] and [Bill] Paxton and me and Joanne Whalley, Dennis Haysbert… just a great cast. We had a sсript that could’ve been worked on, could’ve been made a lot better, but they wanted to make this kind of silly movie about Charlie Sheen running and jumping on the back of a car, putting it in reverse, and driving it off a ramp. The director wanted to make… I don’t know what he wanted to make. A comedy or something. I guess he considered it like an Arnold Schwarzenegger movie. I wanted to do Top Gun, and Paxton wanted to do Top Gun. We wanted to make a really good movie, and it really turned out to be kind of a mish-mash and not a very good movie at all. So it’s really kind of… yeah, it’s probably the worst experience of my life, working on that movie.
AVC: Wow, really? Bill Paxton didn’t exactly love it, but he at least enjoyed the golfing scenes.
MB: Well, yeah, I can see that. Paxton basically… what they basically had us doing in the original sсript was playing volleyball, okay? And it was like, “Dude, come on, man, they did that in Top Gun. Do we really have to do the exact same thing?” So we came up with the golfing stuff, and I remember that Bill came up with—he’s kind of a director himself now, but at the time, he came up with a list of different shots and different things he thought would be really cool. And Lewis Teague [the director], who somehow failed upwards in his career at that point—I think Navy SEALs was his final failing—wouldn’t shoot the stuff.
Still, I’m surprised that Bill has any fond memories of that movie at all, because Bill was, I think, kind of frustrated, too. I just thought there was a possibility to do Top Gun, you know? I thought there was a possibility to show Navy SEALs in a real light, not some sort of crazy jumping out of cars, jumping into rivers kind of shenanigans. I think you’ll probably see the first real great portrayal of Navy SEALs when Kathryn Bigelow’s [Zero Dark Thirty] comes out. I think she’s working on that. So you’ll see it in that. But the thing about the movie Navy SEALs is that it was just such a waste. The sсript could’ve been shaped to be much better, and you just hate to see all that talent and passion go to waste.
Как бы я ни любила этот фильм и как бы Бин не был на него обижен, но Микки, между прочим, прав. Роль Шина не лезет ни в какие ворота и противоречит всем принципам и порядкам Navy SEALs (и я об этом постоянно говорю). То, что в фильме превозносится как изюминка героя, на самом деле должно было привести его к трибуналу с самыми тягчайшими последствиями и вполне заслуженно. А эти сцены с машиной-выкидонами я всегда перекручиваю, когда смотрю фильм. И если бы фильм сняли так, как хотел Бин (а сценарий и так три раза переписывали по его милости), то это был бы серьезный жесткий реалистический боевик. Ну и то верно, кому еще понять "морских котиков", как не Микки Бину. Жаль, что вышло не по его, но бочку на кино он зря катит. Это супер фильм, а Шина можно и перемотать. Зато Микки стоит вспомнить, как он сыграл на сцене похорон, вся дурь тут же забывается.
Tombstone (1993)—“Johnny Ringo”Tombstone (1993)—“Johnny Ringo”
MB: Johnny Ringo is my favorite antagonist. Johnny Ringo is a character that I always played as somebody who kind of had a death wish. He was tired of boozing it up, tired of women… He was bored with life and wanted some excitement, and his way of getting that excitement was having a shootout with Doc Holliday and/or Wyatt Earp. Wyatt Earp was who he was looking at, really. The thing about Johnny Ringo that’s kind of sad, actually, is that they changed his story. Johnny Ringo never shot a priest. Johnny Ringo never shot anybody. That was all done for the movie. Johnny Ringo was known for calling Wyatt Earp out for a gunfight, and Wyatt Earp declined. [Ringo] was one of the cowboys, but that’s really where he got his reputation: calling out Wyatt Earp, and Wyatt Earp saying, “I don’t want to fight you.” He never killed anybody; that was all made up. But that’s my favorite antagonist that I’ve ever played, and there’s a moment in that movie where I say to Doc Holliday, “My fight’s not with you,” and he says, “I beg to differ.” And there appears to be kind of a twinkle in Johnny’s eye, and that’s where I’m basically saying, “Let’s do it.” I think that’s one of my favorite moments in my film career. There was an excitement about it. It’s like guys who go bungee jumping. How close can they get to death without dying? That’s the exciting part of life, and that’s what Johnny Ringo was to me. The rest of it was just a big bore. [Laughs.]
Микки пугает. Этим exciting part of life. Кого это напоминает?
The Abyss (1989)—“Lieutenant Hiram Coffey”The Abyss (1989)—“Lieutenant Hiram Coffey”
MB: Misunderstood. [Laughs.] People always say, “Oh, he’s such a good bad guy,” but… Okay, here I am, I’m just this lieutenant, a guy who’s used to taking orders, cut off from my chain of command. Then I get the underwater sickness, so I’m not quite right, anyway. And then I have these people running up to me, yelling at me that there’s aliens in the water and they’re friendly. I mean, what would you do? [Laughs.] Would you really believe that there were aliens in the water, or would you believe that it was some Russian deal? So I had a lot of sympathy for him, and I had a lot of sympathy for the fact that he was used to, “Come on, give me an order. I’ll march up the hill or whatever you ask me to do.” But when he had to make the decisions, and his mind wasn’t working the way it should be because of his sickness and people were telling him that aliens were running all over the place, it just kind of sent him over the deep end. I’ve always felt a little bit sorry for Coffey, and I’ve never even really thought of him as an antagonist. I just think of him as somebody who was in the wrong place at the wrong time.
И здесь он абсолютно прав. Повторю сказанное выше, но Бин каким-то образом точно понял суть "морских котиков", и строго говоря Лт. Коффи – единственный, кто действовал как положено во всем этом бардаке.
Criminal Minds (2009)—“Detective Ron Fullwood”Criminal Minds (2009)—“Detective Ron Fullwood”
MB: That happened… I took that job the day after my father died, just to keep my mind off of what was going on. I don’t really remember very much about that shoot.
О. Царство Небесное.
Hill Street Blues (1984)—“Officer Randall Buttman”Hill Street Blues (1984)—“Officer Randall Buttman”
MB: Well, that was a great character for me. I loved that character because he was just such a total asshole. He was a racist, he was a misogynist, he didn’t like women, he didn’t like anybody, he was a loudmouth, he was crude… What was cool about him was that I got to work with Betty Thomas and Ed Marinaro, and when I was standing between the two of them, I looked like a shrimp. I mean, I’m 6 feet tall, but Ed’s gotta be 6-foot-2 or 6-foot-3, and Betty’s gotta be 6-foot-1 or 6-foot-2, so I looked like Robert Conrad, like any minute I was gonna say, “Knock this battery off my shoulder!” [Laughs.] I looked like the little guy, who was always feisty and yelling and stuff, and I had a great time doing that character. It’s one of my favorite characters, in fact. I loved him.
Надо таки посмотреть этот сериал, тем более, что он у меня есть.
The Runaways (1978)—“Mark Johnson”The Runaways (1978)—“Mark Johnson”
MB: Ah, I was so young then, I didn’t really know what I was doing. I have very fleeting memories of being excited that I was in a television series. I remember fighting with [producer] Quinn Martin over the fact that I wanted to wear overalls, and he wouldn’t let me wear overalls on the show at certain times. I thought they were cool back then! [Laughs.] That was a very, very long time ago. It’s kind of hard to remember. I remember they replaced the lead actor with the guy from The Brady Bunch [Robert Reed]. He was very nice. Every television series I do seems to do 22 episodes and then go away. Same with The Magnificent Seven. I think we may have done less of Hawaii. I never could get a television series over the top.
Ну и какого ты, ясен свет, помянул совсем не к месту М7?!
The Magnificent Seven (1998-2000)—“Chris Larabee”The Magnificent Seven (1998-2000)—“Chris Larabee”
MB: That was a lot of fun. I enjoyed that. I had a line producer on that television series, John Watson, who used to listen to me. [Laughs.] The scripts would come out, I’d look at them, and I’d say, “Well, this doesn’t make sense and that doesn’t make sense,” and he would actually get the writers to change things. John was kind of like a father figure to me on that show, because it’s hard when writers write stuff that doesn’t make sense, or things are being shot that don’t make sense. And I could always run to John, and he would back me up, which was great. I owe John Watson a lot. I love him. And [executive producer/writer] Pen Densham. But especially John. John used to always joke about the fact that, like, he’d be in his office and he always knew when I was coming, because he could hear these spurs coming down his hallway. [Laughs.] Because I’d be coming in for changes to the scene that day or the sсript the following week, whatever. But he’d hear the spurs and he’d go, “Fuck, here comes Michael Biehn again…”
AVC: The Magnificent Seven was also one of the first series—possibly the very first—to earn a reprieve from cancellation as a result of an Internet campaign from fans.
MB: Well, that’s what they say. They say that a lot of people wrote in, and we did get a few extra episodes out of it. But we just couldn’t push it over the top. If you look at the history of westerns… Tombstone cost $65 million, it made $65 million at the box office, so it’s obviously into profit at this point, but it was not a hugely successful movie when you think about how much people like the movie now and how people talk about it now. Unforgiven, if I’m not mistaken, won Clint Eastwood an Oscar for directing, it won Best Picture, and something like six or seven more nominations beyond that. But I think that movie still only did about $90 million. So I think the western is a genre that… well, I know Quentin [Tarantino] is doing one, and I hear Robert [Rodriguez] is doing one now, too, but it’s been a genre that I know has been tough to sell overseas, and of course they’re expensive to make because of all the period stuff. And from what I understand, teenagers and [people] into their early 20s aren’t really interested in them. So they’re hard sells. They did the combination Cowboys And Aliens, which was… [Long pause.] An interesting movie, I’ll call it. That was, I thought, an interesting idea from the beginning, but… If Quentin can turn his movie, Django Unchained, into a hit, or if Robert can make a hit western, then maybe they’ll come back. But even when we were doing The Magnificent Seven, it was a genre that was kind of losing steam in a hurry.
Бляяяяяяяя... Весело им было. А то, оно и заметно. Без подколов, реально заметно, что ребята делали с удовольствием. Но картина “Fuck, here comes Michael Biehn again…”, идет, тяжело ступая и звеня своими шпорами – это все, капут, я не могу читать и печатать дальше! Вот, дорогие мои, и открыт секрет, почему Крис Лараби такой живой образ – настолько живой, что через 15 лет после премьеры сериала он продолжает жить, будоражить умы и сердца людей и равнозначно существует не только в мире Дикого Запада, а и в современном мире. Все это потому, что он и есть живой, Микки творил его с себя самого. И вот к чему я написала, комментируя Джонни Ринго, что он пугает своими словами – да потому что то, что описал Микки, в точности лепится к Крису Лараби. И над режиссером Микки издевался так, как Крис издевался над всем миром.
А что касается того, что вестерны не продаются – все это верно, но вопрос лично к Микки, почему он регулярно продолжает сниматься в них? Лично мне ясно: не в деньгах счастье. И да, вестерны не смотрят тинейджэры - их смотрят домохозяйки бальзаковского возраста.
Aliens (1986)—“Corporal Dwayne Hicks”Aliens (1986)—“Corporal Dwayne Hicks”
MB: Well, that was an interesting project because I came in late on it. I think what made Hicks such an interesting character was that he was a reluctant hero. There’s a scene in the movie that I think defines Hicks, and that’s where Sigourney Weaver says to Paul Reiser, “I think Hicks is in control here. He’s the one that has to make this decision.” And she looks at him and says, “Am I right?” And I look up at her, and I say [Sheepishly.] “Yeah. Yeah, you’re right.” I don’t want the responsibility. I’m just a grunt, and I do not want the responsibility. And I think that’s what makes him kind of endearing. He’s not a “let’s go out and kick some ass” kind of guy. He’s more, “Well, I guess I have to do this.” That moment, I think, defines Hicks. And the movie itself is just… it’s Jim Cameron at his absolute finest. In fact, I think… Well, I’m a little partial to The Terminator. [Laughs.] But I think those two films are his best.
Истину глаголишь!
Terminator 2AVC: You filmed a reprisal of your role for Terminator 2, but your scenes ended up being cut from the theatrical release. How bummed were you?
MB: A little bit, but not a lot. Because, first of all, it was a long movie. Jim called me, and he explained it to me: It was too long, he had to cut a couple things out, mine was one of the last things to go. But he had two other flashbacks in the movie, and basically what I did in the movie was the same thing I did in the first movie, so it was not like not getting Alien 3. [Laughs.] I got paid a very handsome price for that one day of work. And I’d do anything for Jim. If he asked me to come over and wash his car today, I’d do it. And it’s raining, too! But I’d do anything for Jim.
Приколист хренов, он еще смеется над "Чужим-3"! А сколько он нервов вымотал тамошним режиссерам, им до сих пор не до смеха!
The Rock (1996)—“Commander Charles Anderson”The Rock (1996)—“Commander Charles Anderson”
MB: Well, I have a horror story that goes along with that movie, and then I’ve got a really good story that goes along with it. The horror story is that we had this really big production shot that was set up where one of these trucks pulls up, and there’s 12 of us that come piling out of this humvee, and helicopters are flying by in the background, and other troops are marching, jeeps are driving by. It’s this huge production shot that takes about an hour to set up every time. I came out, and I had this big speech to give that I’d been working on in my head for, like, the last two weeks. So Sean Connery’s standing there, there’s Nic Cage, who’s just been nominated for an Academy Award for Drunk In Las Vegas or whatever it was. [Laughs.] And I come up to give this big speech, and… I just went blank. I’m standing there and I’m not saying anything, and suddenly Michael Bay starts screaming the dialogue to me from off-camera. So he screamed it to me, I’d say it, he’d scream more, I’d say it, he’d scream more… We finally finished it, and we only did one take, because it would’ve taken too long to set up again, but I just felt like a complete idiot. I mean, I froze, and I did it in front of everybody. But Michael kind of poured hot water on the situation, thankfully. Then when we were doing the shower sequence, that turned out to be a scene where… y’know, when I was making it, I didn’t really think it was that big of a deal. But it was the second time I went up against Ed Harris, who’s always been a good, tough guy to go up against, and people always respond to that scene. In fact, a lot of people tell me that it’s the best scene in the movie. So, yeah, I had my highs and lows in The Rock. [Laughs.]
"I didn’t really think it was that big of a deal" – и это об р е а л ь н о лучшей сцене не то что в фильме – многие люди считают, что в кинематографе! И, Микки-Микки, так вот откуда берется твоя жесткая лаконичность!
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03.10.2012 в 14:56Надо таки посмотреть этот сериал, тем более, что он у меня есть. как есть? А у меня почему нету(((
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